Are their any respectable databases of regional populations of Mexico during 1518 - 1650?

by SkyRuin

I was hoping to learn more about the loss of life in Mexico during and after the conquests. Is there any reliable data set that illustrates the sheer amount of loss of life? I have tried looking into it, but seem to be coming up short.

mormengil

I don't think the demographics of Mexico in that time period are very well documented (though there have been a (very) wide range of estimates).

This source: The Peopling of Mexico from Origins to Revolution by Robert McCaa

http://www.hist.umn.edu/~rmccaa/mxpoprev/cambridg3.htm

Is by an Academic, in 1997, estimating that the bottom of the demographic trough in Mexico after the Columbian Exchange, was in about 1650, and he cites a number of population estimates (for the indigenous population at this point (between 1.2 and 3.4m) and for the pre-exchange population (between 5 and 25m)).

I don't know his reputation, or how accurate some of these estimates are, but this might give you a place to start, and his sources might give you further information.